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Erika Ayers Badan

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  1. Give it to the kid. But I remember Fidelity, we paid $30 million to have keyword fidelity on AOL, which is in, you know, in hindsight a preposterous equation. But it worked.

    2024-06-13 · Masters in Business · Erika Ayers Badan on Digital Innovation · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. Yep, and that's really where I got my first big break, which was I worked in the internet and nobody cared about the internet, which is why they hired me for it because I was woefully unqualified to work.

    2024-06-13 · Masters in Business · Erika Ayers Badan on Digital Innovation · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. Yes, it was run by women and it was, you know, at that time, radio and television and print were the top dogs. So what you saw was a company spending hundreds of millions of dollars to acquire customers.

    2024-06-13 · Masters in Business · Erika Ayers Badan on Digital Innovation · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. You know, in hindsight, it was probably fairly reckless I didn't have any money saved. The pay for the marketing job was $17,900 and I was making $50,000. But I was bored and I just didn't frustrated. I didn't like the feeling of being.

    2024-06-13 · Masters in Business · Erika Ayers Badan on Digital Innovation · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. Exactly. So I. I saw firsthand what it was like or what I perceived it would be like to work in a law firm. And I saw firsthand. What it was like to mitigate risk. And I realized that I hated both of those things.

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  6. No, that made me become highly allergic to the concept of going to loss. I was bored. I made $50,000 my first job out of school, which for me was a lot of money.

    2024-06-13 · Masters in Business · Erika Ayers Badan on Digital Innovation · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. It wasn't. But I took a bunch of, I got an internship at Fidelity Investments when I was a junior. And it really gave me a taste for. And I wanted to work in business. And at the time when I graduated the economy, it was very good. So the fact that I had a sociology degree really didn't impede, I think, getting into business.

    2024-06-13 · Masters in Business · Erika Ayers Badan on Digital Innovation · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. Yeah, 100%. Keep the good times going. Right, that's exactly right. Yeah, I didn't, I liked sociology because you could write. It was a lot of reading and it was a lot of writing. And it was, I liked the idea of studying people and groups. I had a really fantastic professor named Tom Morioni.

    2024-06-13 · Masters in Business · Erika Ayers Badan on Digital Innovation · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source